Terre Haute Paper Immersed In McVeigh

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Editor Max Jones predicted it would be at least a decade before his newspaper would cover the execution of Timothy McVeigh.

Now just two years after McVeigh transferred to death row at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Jones and his news staff of 40 at the Tribune-Star are immersed in daily coverage of the man who bombed a federal building more than 600 miles away.

“Anyone involved in the news operation, basically everybody but sports, has at some point been touched because it’s so big and has so much dimension to it,” Jones said.



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